When you think of Alabama technology, you may conjure sepia-toned images of George Washington Carver’s zany peanut inventions or grainy footage of the first moon landing, achieved with the Saturn V rocket built on Alabama soil. What you may not realize, is how Alabamians today continue to generate world-changing technologies. In 2001, Gabriela Gurau left Romania to move to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to pursue a Ph.D.